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I guess I should have seen this coming, but it is a good thing – the Bluemix docker documentation has been updated since this post was published. It is still worth reading to learn a few things about docker – but the referenced documentation site does not look like it is detailed in this post (less than 24 hours later!!)

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Currently access to containers within Bluemix is at BETA (May 2015) and you have to request access to get to it. I am writing this for my own sanity and documentation…….

The instructions for installation are here

http://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/#starters/index-gentopic3.html

Having had to figure out how to give my boot2docker access to the internet to download files for Step 1, Step 2 was no easier…

Step 2

 

 

 

Well when I tried that I got this……

So having a quick Google and some Toby I found this link about using curl instead of wget

 wget vs curl: How to Download Files Using wget and curl

Using curl -O instead of wget it works

Step 3

1. Install Python Setuptools, see Installing and Using Setuptools.

Install says do this – curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -o – | python

and that bombed

Do this instead

curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py

sudo python ez_setup.py

Step 4

Abandon all faith ye who enter…..ok what next

docker@boot2docker:~$ wget cf.tgz -L -O https://cli.run.pivotal.io/stable?release=linux32-binary
docker@boot2docker:~$ sudo tar -zxvf cf.tgz -C /usr/bin/

well that didn’t work as we have already seen – try I tried this instead and this failed as well

curl cf.tgz -O https://cli.run.pivotal.io/stable?release=linux32-binary

I tried to download the file (https://cli.run.pivotal.io/stable?release=linux32-binary ) with chrome dev tools open and I saw this URL – http://go-cli.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/releases/v6.11.2/cf-linux-386.tgz

so I tried this – and it worked

• curl -O http://go-cli.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/releases/v6.11.2/cf-linux-386.tgz

then this failed – sudo tar -zxvf cf.tgz -C /usr/bin/ because the name of the file is really cf-linux-386.tgz

so do this

• sudo tar -zxvf cf-linux-386.tgz -C /usr/bin/

Step 5

Set the following variable: DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1

“Note: If you are using Boot2docker, set the variable in your Boot2docker VM.”

HOW????

So I checked the docker git site…https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker which states clearly…

I also saw to run boot2docker up and oooooo look at that export !!!

 

So do that (I wonder what the other two do – that might be helpful later)

• export DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1

“You are ready to install the IBM Containers Extension.”

Conclusion

Steps 1 – 5 and none of them worked as per the instructions. I have done my part and commented on the post stating as such, but wow !!!

You can’t make this up…..more as soon as I can figure it out….or not !

I did learn a bunch about curl, boot2docker, oracle VirtualBox so not a total waste

#thinkPositive